wadding caek

This is kind of what happens when I attend weddings. This all started years ago when my sister Diedra decided to make the wedding cake for one of her close friends. I was recruited as the person to help hold the cake while in transport and assist with decorating (mainly holding things for Diedra). But I was hooked on wedding cakes.

When my older sister Jocelyn got married, I decided to make her wedding cake. Since we had just been to France and seen some beautiful cakes in store windows, I made a triple chocolate cake with a butter cream frosting decorated with strips of white chocolate and raspberries on top. The cake was covered with white chocolate strips and then tied with a ribbon to hold them all in place. It was absolutely gorgeous.

Since then Diedra and I have done a few wedding cakes together (and a bridal shower cake for our friend Mel, which was so incredibly adorable). We figured out how to do fondant a few years back, which has been one of the funnest things to work with. I love how it makes the cakes look and how elegant it is.

The Parks-Sparks wedding cake.

Jocelyn actually baked the cake, since I arrived in California the day before the wedding.

I spent the morning whipping up a huge batch of frosting and then decorating the cake at her parent's home.

This is me smirking at the wonderful dinner after the wedding.